Internal email and company documents, disclosed here for the first time, show that Adelson instructed a top executive to pay about $700,000 in legal fees to Leonel Alves, a Macau legislator whose firm was serving as an outside counsel to Las Vegas Sands.

The company's general counsel and an outside law firm warned that the arrangement could violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. It is unknown whether Adelson was aware of these warnings. The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act bars American companies from paying foreign officials to "affect or influence any act or decision" for business gain.

Money has completely corrupted our political system from top to bottom. Politicians will do whatever they have to do to get elected. Special interestes will buy any politicial willing to take their money. Voters vote for candidates who promise the most hand outs. It's a ****ing joke and we did it to ourselves. Republicans, democrats, conservatives and regressives. To believe anything else is dishonest at best.

Money has completely corrupted our political system from top to bottom. Politicians will do whatever they have to do to get elected. Special interestes will buy any politicial willing to take their money. Voters vote for candidates who promise the most hand outs. It's a ****ing joke and we did it to ourselves. Republicans, democrats, conservatives and regressives. To believe anything else is dishonest at best.

Imagine this. Hillary Clinton, Andrew Cuomo, Elizabeth Warren and multiple lesser Democratic notables travel halfway across the country to kiss the ring of a Palestinian-American billionaire who has shown himself willing to spend tens of millions of dollars subsidizing presidential campaigns. The billionaire has some provocative views. Six months earlier, he suggested that if Israel does not end its nuclear weapons program, America should drop an “atomic weapon…in the middle of the [Negev] desert that doesn’t hurt a soul.” If that doesn’t work, America should drop “the next one…in the middle of” Tel Aviv. The billionaire insists that there is no such thing as the Jewish people. It’s a hoax; the Jews “have fooled the world very successfully.” And he declares that “There isn’t a” Jew “alive who wasn’t raised on a curriculum of hatred and hostility toward the” Palestinians.

Change the words “Democrat” to “Republican,” “Israel” to “Iran” and “Palestinian” to “Jewish,” and that’s exactly what just happened. Leading contenders for the 2016 GOP presidential nomination spent last weekend wooing and feting a billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, whose views – if directed at Jews—would put him in the company of Louis Farrakhan and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

I'm thinking someone put a halt to his "stay at home dad status" and spending all day on the keyboard telling others how to live. I hope he's out in the real world of paying taxes and bringing home some bacon.